Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Resource Date:
November
2021
The Convention on Wetlands (The Convention) and other national, regional and global policy frameworks promote the restoration of degraded peatlands. Rewetting peatland to reduce greenhouse gas...
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United Nations Environment Programme
Resource Date:
November
2022
Peatlands are unique and rare ecosystems that, despite only covering around 3-4% of the planet’s land surface, they contain up to one-third of the world’s soil carbon, which is twice the amount of...
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Royal Gardner
Max Finlayson
Conservation and wise use of wetlands are vital for human livelihoods. The wide range of ecosystem services wetlands provide means that they lie at the heart of sustainable development. Yet policy and...
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Government of Northwest Territories
Resource Date:
February
2022
The Guidelines for Exploration and Development Projects in Boreal Caribou Habitat: Northwest Territories (the NWT Boreal Caribou Guidelines) are intended for proponents of exploration and development...
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A 72-pge 2015 report by the Gwich'in Social and Cultural Institute on Gwich’in Traditional Knowledge of the Bluenose-West Caribou herd. This resource and others can be found on the Northern Caribou...
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The Vangorda Plateau at the Faro Mine Complex contains two open pits that, starting in 2013, will both require dewatering. Since mine abandonment in 1998, water levels in Vangorda pit have been...
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Prince Albert Grand Council
This article describes the community-based climate monitoring and fish habitat protection programs that Prince Albert Grand Council (PAGC) is undertaking. PAGC trains their youth in science and...
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Jessie DeGrave, Alex Lynch, Morgan Vespa, Shawna Wolfe
Most populations of caribou across Canada are now in decline and as caribou management challenges are increasing in their complexity and breadth, so too are the concerns of a variety of stakeholders...
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Indigenous-led environmental firms are at the forefront of blending Indigenous knowledge with contemporary environmental science, crafting innovative solutions for conservation, resource management...
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Resource Date:
September
2021
This dissertation research characterizes how wildlife co-management impacts well-being in Inuit Nunangat. Abstract Inuit in the Circumpolar North are closely tied to the lands, waters, and wildlife...
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National Boreal Caribou Knowledge Consortium
Resource Date:
October
2021
The Indirect monitoring methods detailed writeup includes a chapter introduction addressing the common strengths, weaknesses, and considerations of the following field methods: Fecal sampling, and...
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This "story" in the IPCA Knowledge Basket uses the Torngat Wildlife & Plants Co-management Board as a case study to describe and explain Indigenous co-management led research, with a focus on caribou...
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A two-page summary report in Inuktitut on contaminants in the Ahiak caribou herd. To view this report in English, click here. Related Herds: Ahiak This resource and others can be found on the Northern...
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A two-page summary report in Inuktitut on contaminants in the Dolphin and Union caribou herd Related Herds: Dolphin and Union This resource and others can be found on the Northern Caribou Canada...
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Resource Date:
April
2022
Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability The Working Group II contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report assesses the impacts of climate change, looking at ecosystems...
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Wildlife Resource Consulting Services MB Inc.
This survey was designed as part of the Keeyask Terrestrial Effects Monitoring Plan (TEMP). The objective of this survey was to evaluate how the Project may be affecting patterns and trends in caribou...
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An online encyclopaedia article, updated in 2016, on the Kivallirmiut (Caribou Inuit) who live in the Kivalliq region of Nunavut. These people were different from other Canadian Inuit in that they...
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Resource Date:
March
2016
To meet federal Recovery Strategy objectives, the Government of the Northwest Territories, Environment and Natural Resources Department (GNWT-ENR) is developing a set of regional plans to demonstrate...
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Leah Levac
Lisa McMurtry
Deborah Stienstra
Gail Balkie
Cindy Hanson
Devi Mucina
Pressing socioeconomic, political, and ecological challenges demand new approaches to creating and acting on research. Finding new approaches to knowledge creation requires turning to previously...
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Annette Löf
Naomi Carriere
This study explores two Indigenous communities, one reindeer (Ran gifer tarandus tarandus) herding community in northern Sweden and a woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) hunting community in...